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20 September
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17 September
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Historically, whenever companies get power over what people's computing facilities can do, they use it against us, building malicious functionalities, designed to benefit them, into the software they invite us to use.
16 September
14 September
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RCTs somehow have the odd disadvantage of requiring too many things to be held constant, and so they can miss the benefits of longer-term adjustments.
Does AI assistance enhance or erode expertise?marginalrevolution.com
12 September
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The benefits to economic science from AI will be enormous, even if current practitioners cannot foresee most of themTheir words
I expect the benefits to economic science from AI will be enormous, even if current practitioners cannot foresee most of those benefits today.
11 September
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what Meta has assembled is free (to consumers) hardware and software that dramatically reduces the barrier to entry for ordinary people looking to harness the power of agents, making the AI upside a lot more accessible to the masses who don't want to buy a Mac Mini.
10 September
9 September
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A powerful new technology that benefits only part of society is inherently politically destabilizing.Their words
It's highly destabilizing to have such a transformative, productive tool only bring half of society along.
8 September
3 September
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GitHub ProTheir words
GitHub Pro - Well worth $48 per year for GitHub Pages, traffic stats and all the other benefits.
2 September
1 September
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If something less than a transformation of your everyday experience has occurred, there is something more out there.
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Managing the transition to a world with abundant and powerful AI to optimize for safety and benefits to people should be one of the highest priorities in the world.
28 August
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From one piece DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A country benefits from immigration in proportion to whether the people arriving are net contributors who assimilate.Their words
Immigration depends greatly on who immigrates. And a country benefits when the people who immigrate are net contributors to the society, and in most cases, that they assimilate with the local culture.
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The revelation I've had working on Omarchy the last three months is that to get that magical 10X, 100X, in a few rare cases, 1000X productivity boost, you have to interact with the agents directly, and you cannot intermediate that bandwidth with another human because it's simply too slow.
25 August
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This is a computer system made for pros, and I mean that in the sense of professional computer lovers. People who are willing to invest time and energy into learning how their system works, and reap the benefits that come from that investment.
23 August
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Most high-skilled Europeans are happy to pay even high taxes, provided the government does a great job in return.Their words
I think most high skilled Europeans are happy to pay (even high) taxes That is, if the government does a great job like Singapore or Dubai or Korea or Japan and most things work well You pay the government for a service and you get safe cities, great public services and great healthcare back
19 August
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9 August
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The Sea Peoples did not invade lands to claim them as their own, or extract treasure or slaves to bring back to their homeland. They seemingly torched the great capitals of the Bronze Age just to watch them burn.
31 July
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there still seems to be an enormous premium on cognitive ability. And so, I wouldn't I I I I think, um, renouncing that before there's evidence that we've saturated, uh, those benefits would be premature.
30 July
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From one piece Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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However, there's an increasing body of literature that shows that by engaging older adults in novel cognitive activities, you see improvements in function. So that can be language learning. Uh that can be uh complex like coordinative movement or exercise. You see the same things with um like musical training like people learning a new musical instrument or learning um musical theory trying to identify different patterns in music. And you see in randomized control trials improvements particularly in executive function that seems to be most common across those different interventions.
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Whereas aerobic exercise on that kind of intensity spectrum we just talked about seems to particularly benefit the gray matter which includes the hippocampus. Resistance training seems to particularly benefit the white matter.
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Sure, language classes can provide social benefits and feedback. But the real means of learning a language is consistent, ample amounts of listening and reading.
19 July
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In a world of AI with agents operating across multiple systems, wanting source of truth data, the importance of having preferred paved paths that get the most of the benefits and produce some guardrails so we can make sure we're doing good work, common infrastructure, common paved paths, solving problems once with a core set of capabilities becomes more important.
17 July
15 July
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you can slow way down and read every PR and read every line of code. Uh, and then you're only going to really get modest benefits from AI because that becomes I I think you should expect maybe 30 to 50% lift in productivity is kind of what I see when we go into teams
13 July
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It's as simple as you you need to know your hotel room number when you're staying there. But if I ask you your hotel room number a week later, it's gone. But that's good in a way because you're going to have other numbers to remember and other hotel room numbers to remember. So there's benefits of forgetting.
4 July
From one piece Metformin and cancer: active surveillance needed 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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we now have multiple trials confirming that metformin interferes with your ability to reap the adaptive benefits of exercise, which is the most powerful broad-based longevity intervention available to us today
Metformin and cancer: active surveillance neededpeterattiamd.com
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That’s a lesson we could all learn about our approach to supplements and even drugs: not to fall for hazy promises that a single molecule will deliver vaguely-defined benefits for all aging persons, but to demand rigorous evidence for well-defined benefits for well-defined problems in well-defined populations.
Metformin and cancer: active surveillance neededpeterattiamd.com
30 June
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Housing subsidies cannot scale to the size of the problem, and the YIMBYs are right to say so.Their words
While there are certainly some benefits to these programs, YIMBYs are right to doubt that housing subsidies alone are a scalable solution to affordability challenges.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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A new transit line still benefits riders it diverts from existing lines, not only the new riders it attracts.Their words
Riders diverted from other lines still benefit from the project, especially in a case like QueensLink, where the diverted riders would enjoy an improvement in trip time to Midtown of about 10-15 minutes each way.
25 June
21 June
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High-polluting industries benefit directly and obviously from the collapse of trust, shared reality and information quality.
16 June
From one piece Europe's housing shortages are even worse than America's 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Without densification restrictions, housing shortages will only ever be serious in cities where land is really intensely scarce, as in Hong Kong.
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In fact, zoning was invented in Europe, in Germany and Austria-Hungary, in the late nineteenth century.
From one piece Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It shouldn't It shouldn't be shelved next to How to Win Friends and Influence People because it's a manual not of how to gain power, but of how to keep power.
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And everyone says, "Why are they liking this man? He is a cruel murdering tyrant." And the answer is for the first time in generations, they have had something close to fair justice.
9 June
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And their idea is we must hash out our different differences with diplomats and lawyers cuz when you send the soldiers in, it is uh whatever gains you think you're going going to get are going to be inferior to what you would have done with the diplomats.
7 June
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Making your customers unhealthy is a short-term gain that ends with having no customers.Their words
Sure, you could have a short-term gain in your customers, but if you make your customers unhealthy, you're not going to have customers.
4 June
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some people think either uh frontier AI gets commoditized and we all enjoy the benefits, but there might be some risk because like it's the market's really competitive and cutthroat, or um things are safer because there's a big gap between the leader and the laggard, but that means that the leaders get fantastically wealthy. No, like you could just have a relatively big gap, but it's a public company ownership and it's widely distributed.
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because a lot with electricity, a lot of the downstream benefits actually came to like the users of the electricity rather than the rather than the actual entity producing the electricity. On the other hand, with social media, it was the opposite case, right? Social media, you know, it was everywhere. Everybody uses social media, but the rents went to the platform.
30 May
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People who are openly power-hungry tend to eventually lose their power or never gain it.Their words
Sure, some skilled sociopaths run amok. But most of those who are crudely, blatantly power-hungry in the long term lose it, or never gain it in the first place.
30 April
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Between Hopper and Blackwell from the transistors themselves, call it 75%. It was 3 years apart. 75%. Blackwell is 50 times hopper. My point is architecture matters.
14 April
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Self-driving cars seem to be just more cars, and people who dislike cars don't love that. But the electric robotaxi offers much more potential
12 April
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10 March
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Nor does polycentricity solve the problem. Indeed, ridership in polycentric regions is weaker than in monocentric ones.
13 February
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What I would say is that you know we are we are about to be in a world where growth and economic value will come very easily. If right if we're able to build these powerful AI models, growth and economic value will come very easily. What will not come easily is distribution of benefits, distribution of wealth, political freedom, um you know, these are the things that are going to be hard to achieve.
31 January
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NotePlanTheir words
NotePlan is more conservative, but it’s a native Mac app, which makes it easier to use on mobile and gives you all the traditional Mac benefits like Shortcuts integration and proper window management.
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SafariTheir words
I like all the benefits I get from using Safari because it’s so baked into the other applications I use.
25 January
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When you have a loss, a percentage loss, you have to have a greater percentage gain just to get back to where you were. In this case, a loss of 20% requires a gain of 25% to get back to where you were.
7 January
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Escaping the Build TrapTheir words
Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer.
9 December 2025
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There can be no way to participate fully in the potential benefits from the new technology without being exposed to the losses that will arise if the enthusiasm and thus investors’ behavior prove to have been excessive.
6 December 2025
26 November 2025
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Leaving AmericaTheir words
Leaving America. This is a 12-part podcast on the logistics, benefits, and challenges of leaving the United States. Oh, no reason. (B+)
18 November 2025
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Lovedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
Invisible CitiesTheir words
I'm going to have to include Italo Calvino's Oulipian novel Invisible Cities (trans. by William Weaver), since it is a foundational text for me.
12 November 2025
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the improvement software improvements of really throughput in terms of tokens per dollar per watt that we're able to get uh you know quarter over quarter year over year is massive uh right so it's 5x 10x maybe 40x in some of these cases
30 September 2025
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This is something I practice every day. I read some piece of news and I ask myself, "Who benefits from me reading this?" Then you can end up coming to this conclusion that maybe 95% of things we read in the news have been written and published because somebody wanted you to buy some product, support some political cause, fight some war, donate some money.
27 August 2025
19 August 2025
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My model is that research requires a mix of skills. The day-to-day coding and execution is crucial. But there's also a set of harder-to-learn conceptual skills, collectively called research taste. These skills take a long time to gain because they have poor feedback loops, but they take very little time to use.
15 August 2025
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the meta problem here is if we don't move our industrial stack off fossil fuels in 10 or 20 years, first of all, we'll get poor the same way you UK did, right? Because they ran out of coal basically. And the second thing is we'll get poor because we'll flood our coastal cities in Florida underneath climate change.
13 August 2025
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Industrial policy was heavily criticized and again, if I talk to my Harvard professors, they’ll be very, very, very skeptical about the role of the state, especially in such a major way. But if you look at the Chinese experience, the evidence for success is all there. The cities that have pushed the most on supporting that particular sector ultimately did the best in terms of production, but also in terms of innovation, measured by patents. It’s all in the data.
2 August 2025
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Some models could be used both for good and ill, yes. Diffusion models in particular could be used by bad actors to hallucinate toxins or other harmful proteins.
AI could help lead to an Alzheimer's cureblog.jacobtrefethen.com
31 July 2025
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I think that sedentary armies, sedentary civilizations, they get stuck in ways, this is how we do it. And we're going to make it a little faster, we're going to make it a little bigger, a little stronger but this is how we think. Genghis Khan had no set way to think and, when he encountered the first walled cities around 1209 after founding his nation in 1206, he went out on these raids and I really think there were raids not wars at first.
29 July 2025
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Pollution is a price worth paying for escaping poverty only if the people breathing it are the ones who escape.Their words
It’s one thing if residents of Sulawesi like Mr. Jamal and his family have had to risk exposure to toxic pollutants in a successful escape from poverty. It’s another thing entirely if those bearing most of the burden see few of the benefits.
24 July 2025
10 June 2025
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Consistent with the Kantian hypothesis, reasoning models automatically gain greater autonomy, self-consistency and long-horizon planning ability for free.
28 May 2025
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Cities began to prefer subways to elevateds, despite the fact that they were two to four times as expensive to build as elevated trains.
15 May 2025
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3 February 2025
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until there are feedback loops of open source AI, it seems like mostly an ideological mission. People like Mark Zuckerberg, which is like America needs this and I agree with him, but in the time where the motivation ideologically is high, we need to capitalize and build this ecosystem around, what benefits do you get from seeing the language model data?
29 January 2025
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The American cities with the highest housing prices have the worst homelessness problems.
1 January 2025
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Such "taxi" services where the cars are also used with drivers at other times and with extended geography, in 10 major US cities NET 2025
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This is unlikely to happen in the first half of this century.
7 December 2024
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So Portland managed to build one very small line for fairly reasonable costs, but they were not cutting edge; this is a common pattern to Western US cities, in that the first line has reasonable costs and then things explode, even while staying self-funded and self-directed.
Low Spanish Costs are not About Decentralizationpedestrianobservations.com
24 November 2024
1 November 2024
From one piece Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Government payments and benefits aimed at raising birth rates do not reverse the decline.Their words
Across the OECD, governments are upping their spending. But a wealth of research suggests these fail to mitigate the downward trend.
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A multi-ethnic society only gets the benefits of diversity if it deliberately builds a shared national identity.Their words
However, productive collaborations are not inevitable. Just look at ethnic violence in South-East Asia or Hindu Nationalism in India. Nation-building is really valuable, learning from multi-ethnic, democratic Indonesia.
30 September 2024
From one piece Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | Lex Fridman Podcast #446 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But then we have the interesting case of in the Postclassic, they shed the idea of kings. They don’t like kings anymore. That’s probably a big part of why the Classic disappearance and the abandonment of all those cities happened. People just got sick of kings.
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The Maya did not collapse; they moved a few kilometres out into perishable houses, and archaeology could not see it.Their words
I think it’s a failing of archeology to properly see what was happening. I think that most of those cities populations moved no more than 20 to 40 kilometers out and started their own farm, and they lived in perishable houses.
10 June 2024
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But there's also reason to believe that data center power consumption will nevertheless rise substantially.
21 May 2024
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It's time for the field to stop attributing benefits to clinical experience. Beyond the obvious ethical concerns, doing so actually prevents us from improving our effectiveness!
8 May 2024
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Our experiment demonstrates that the immense potential benefits of biotechnology are profoundly vulnerable to misuse.
12 April 2024
2 April 2024
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It’s only in dense urban areas that the cost of land begins to dominate the cost of new housing, driven by regulatory and zoning restrictions that limit how much housing can be built in a given area.
26 March 2024
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Criticism is what happens when someone with domain knowledge who is not trying to earn status by hurting you is able to help you see the world as it is. And those three pieces are the key, right? Because most of the criticism I've gotten in my life has come from people who felt like they would feel better if I felt worse.
22 March 2024
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I mean even projects within the Manhattan Project defined thermonuclear weapon, the thermonuclear weapon as the evil thing. It was evil. It’s a weapon of genocide. Atomic weapons destroy cities, thermonuclear weapons destroy civilizations.
13 March 2024
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Making American farms more productive shrinks cropland in the rest of the world by more than it adds at home.Their words
Nelson Villoria estimates that for every 1% gain in Total Factor Productivity (inputs required per unit of output) in the US, croplands in the rest of the world shrink by 0.7%.
19 December 2023
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Whatever safety gain a driver-assistance system delivers is cancelled out by the driver complacency it creates.Their words
suggests that any steering automation safety gains (e.g., Level 2 autopilot) are approximately negated by driver complacency, with autopilot on being slightly worse than autopilot off
29 November 2023
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Anti-immigration parties gain ground by generating fear, not by winning the argument about what immigration does.Their words
The thing about the far-right parties is that they are trying to get people to equate all foreigners in a country with a threat to our future, but they are only gaining ground because of their ability to generate fear.
17 November 2023
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I'm not a defensive realist, I'm an offensive realist. And my argument is that states look for opportunities to gain more power, and every time they see, or almost every time they see an opportunity to gain more power, and they think the likelihood of success is high and the cost will not be great, they'll jump at that opportunity.
4 March 2023
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My view is that it’s going to take more than this regulatory campaign to defeat dynamism in China.
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What I did not sufficiently appreciate is that a state that would so casually decapitate a sector like online tutoring would also have the will to visit catastrophe upon whole cities.
1 January 2023
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The crewed Mars programme is the biggest project in history and nobody can say what it is for.Their words
Somehow we’ve embarked on the biggest project in history even though it has no articulable purpose, offers no benefits, and will cost taxpayers more than a good-sized war.
7 September 2022
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Cities are not alive: they cannot propagate themselves, and can only exist as the product of something that does.Their words
And cities and all these other forms that look alive and could be described as alive, because they can’t propagate themselves can only exist as the product of something that did propagate itself.
1 June 2022
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The lower the neutral rate, the smaller the fiscal and welfare costs and the larger the welfare benefits of debt and deficits.
11 May 2022
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There’s a reasonable amount of evidence that housing prices tend to adjust to match regional incomes.
17 March 2022
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$1,000/month without benefits is a nice way to show appreciation, but won’t achieve any other goals.
2 February 2022
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Any harm can in principle be outweighed by a small enough benefit delivered to a large enough number of people.Their words
In theory, any harm can be outweighed by something that benefits a large enough number of persons, even if it benefits them in a minor way.
30 June 2021
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A new or innovative system that involves changes to the process thus incurs a significant risk penalty that would likely exceed the expected benefits of the innovation.
Why It's Hard to Innovate in Constructionconstruction-physics.com
1 February 2021
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In people living their normal lives, circulating insulin level, and the insulin response to carbohydrate, don’t reliably predict who will gain weight and who won’t.
20 September 2019
20 August 2019
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Triton Audio FetHead preampTheir words
The SM7B needs a lot more gain than most mics, so this little inline preamp is great for getting the levels up without investing in a really expensive mic preamp.
30 May 2019
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Sharing credit generously benefits everyone because it encourages future collaboration.Their words
Credit isn't zero sum. It is often in everyone's benefit to be generous with credit, because it creates an incentive for others to help in the future.
13 June 2018
16 April 2018
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That the Best Physician is Also a PhilosopherTheir words
There's another ancient text I could have mentioned: Galen's That the Best Physician is Also a Philosopher. It's essentially a call to arms for doctors to concentrate on the perfection of their clinical skills and to give up on ideas of attempts to get rich through their art. It shows all the ways in which he doesn't trust those doctors who use their talents for a gain other than the benefit of their patients. It is short and elegant.
10 April 2018
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full spectrum LED lightTheir words
I use a full spectrum LED light most mornings for about 10-15 minutes while I catch up on email. It's great—if you try nothing else in here, this is the thing I'd try. It's a ridiculous gain for me.
12 June 2017
From one piece The Power of Growing Incrementally 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Cities have only ever built wealth incrementally, by many small improvements over a long time, not by big projects.Their words
Yet, incremental investment is how cities have always built wealth.
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Pre-Depression development was incremental on a continuum of improvement while post-War development is built at a large scale to a finished state.
31 January 2017
10 January 2017
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This thinking is how you end up with two dollars of public infrastructure for every one dollar of private investment.
21 July 2016
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In dense cities, where big transit vehicles (including buses) are carrying significant ridership, any “small vehicles replacing big vehicles” solution increases the total number of vehicles on the road at any time.
10 December 2015
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Residual networks are easier to optimize than plain ones and keep gaining accuracy as depth increases.Their words
We provide comprehensive empirical evidence showing that these residual networks are easier to optimize, and can gain accuracy from considerably increased depth.
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Residual networks are easier to optimize than plain ones and keep gaining accuracy as depth increases.Their words
We provide comprehensive empirical evidence showing that these residual networks are easier to optimize, and can gain accuracy from considerably increased depth.
4 November 2014
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However successful driverless cars become, transit will remain crucial for dense cities because cities are defined by a shortage of space per person.
24 June 2014
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It's Always SomethingTheir words
And I think she did a really good job portraying that- the ups and downs, what a positive attitude can and can not get you, the costs and benefits of fighting doctors and using alternative treatments. It was a very honest description of both hope and despair without become overwhelming.
10 June 2014
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Deep generative models have had less of an impact, due to the difficulty of approximating many intractable probabilistic computations that arise in maximum likelihood estimation and related strategies, and due to difficulty of leveraging the benefits of piecewise linear units in the generative context.
17 June 2011
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Put these two characteristics together and you have a key insight; Cities routinely trade near-term cash advantages associated with new growth for long-term financial obligations associated with maintenance of infrastructure.
7 June 2010
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But the problem of cars in cities is not a technology problem, it’s a geometry problem: a problem of space.
Technology vs Geometry at the Venice Biennalehumantransit.org
5 March 2010
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